South Building of Water Works is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Water works building.
South Building of Water Works
- WRENN ID
- ruined-buttress-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Water works building
- Address
- South Building of Water Works, Margaret Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 360 917
- Coordinates
- 53.41904, -2.96301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Building of the Water Works, built in 1857 by T. Duncan, is a water works building constructed from snecked stone. It has two storeys and features two bays on each floor. The building is characterized by quoins, a top bracketed cornice, and a high parapet that includes a blind arcade.
The south facade has a ground floor with round windows, while the first floor showcases round-headed recesses containing tripartite windows, with stepped round-headed lights positioned above. The north facade features two round-headed rusticated recesses, each with two round-headed lights and a roundel. There is an enclosed porch with rusticated quoins and a cornice, along with round-headed windows and an entrance.
A chimney is located at the north-west angle and consists of two stages of blind lancets, bracketed cornices, and antefixae on both sides. An adjoining block to the north is a single storey with three bays, also featuring quoins, a top frieze cornice, and blocking courses, topped with a hipped slate roof. This section includes three windows with two round-headed lights and a roundel beneath a round relieving arch.
Local climate
South Building of Water Works sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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